Richard Price and the Ethical Foundations of the American Revolution

Herausgeber: Peach, William Bernard

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Produktbeschreibung

"What Peach offers is an artfully chosen body of deeply interesting material which "shows" us what the American Revolution historically was in the realm of ideas. Its effect on one reader at least was much stronger than any descriptive or critical study written now could be. Peach's view that 'Price's appeal to reason in justifying the Revolution . . . is fundamentally sound, fundamentally humanistic, and is reflected in the opening passages of the Declaration of Independence' is of course controversial. But the evidence for it provided by the materials he has collected is of the first importance, and is not available to the run of scholars. And his Introduction itself is a brave and original piece of philosophical criticism which deserves close study."--Alan Donagan

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 1978
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822304005
• ISBN-10: 0822304007
• Artikelnr.: 42991315

Autorenporträt

William Bernard Peach, ed.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 9
Introduction 13
A Note on the Editions 41
The General Introduction and Supplement to the Two Tracts on Civil Liberty,
the War with America, and the Finances of the Kingdon 45
Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty, the Principles of Government,
and the Justice and Policy of the War with America [The First Tract on
Civil Liberty] 63
Additional Observations on the Nature and Value of Civil Liberty and the
War with America [The Second Tract on Civil Liberty] 125
Observations on the Importance of the American Revolution and the Means of
Making it a Benefit to the World 177
Letter from M. Turgot 215
Appendices
1. On Conciliation with the Colonies / Edmund Burke 229
2. Three Letters to Dr. Price / John Lind 235
3. Some Observations on Liberty Occasioned by a Late Tract / John Wesley
245
4. Remarks on a Pamphlet Lately Published by Dr. Price / Adam Ferguson 253
5. A Sermon Preached Before the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of
the Bible in Foreign Parts / William Markham, Lord Archbishop of York 261
6. Letters to John Farr and John Harris, Esqrs (Sheriffs of the City of
Bristol) / Edmund Burke 266
7. A Sermon Delivered to a Congregation of Protestant Dissenters at Hackney
/ Richard Price 275
8. Selected Correspondence 286
Index 343